Shrapnel—Plate 95.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Wound of the Humerus,
with Lodgment of the Missile.
The course of the missile was from before backward. The missile consisted of two large fragments of a richocheted shrapnel ball, almost spent in energy before striking the arm, as its penetration was just enough to pass through the soft parts and strike the humerus, causing a fissure without separation of fragments. The wound was clean.
The treatment in such cases is naturally conservative.
[The epiphysis of the olecranon being so distinct and showing no fusion, indicates the youth of this soldier, whose age could not have been more than 16 years.]
Plate 96.
